30 Days of Books! Day Eleven.
Day 11 - A book you hated
Basically, I'm a huge nerd who went through all thirty days of this meme and wrote out short answers for each day in advance, and while I've held to it religiously, I'm completely changing my answer for today. While Ghost Girl and The Monstrumologist get honorable mentions for suckage, and the final book in the Vampireville series earned one star and the review of "I'm offended Ellen Schreiber has a publisher" I'm going to go with Beautiful Darkness (Caster Chronicles #2) by Kami Garcia for a book I hated.
It seriously takes a lot for me to stop reading a series. It doesn't happen very often and I take it personal and feel beaten when I can't continue. Unfortunately when you're prone to reading the kind of books I enjoy, encounters with people who think they can write is a common occurrence. Beautiful Darkness was incredibly annoying in that the author wastes a couple hundred pages on useless drivel and then packs everything worth reading into the last half of the book. When a book is over 500 pages, something needs to happen in the first 350.
From GoodReads: Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at Ethan and Lena, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.
Basically, I'm a huge nerd who went through all thirty days of this meme and wrote out short answers for each day in advance, and while I've held to it religiously, I'm completely changing my answer for today. While Ghost Girl and The Monstrumologist get honorable mentions for suckage, and the final book in the Vampireville series earned one star and the review of "I'm offended Ellen Schreiber has a publisher" I'm going to go with Beautiful Darkness (Caster Chronicles #2) by Kami Garcia for a book I hated.
It seriously takes a lot for me to stop reading a series. It doesn't happen very often and I take it personal and feel beaten when I can't continue. Unfortunately when you're prone to reading the kind of books I enjoy, encounters with people who think they can write is a common occurrence. Beautiful Darkness was incredibly annoying in that the author wastes a couple hundred pages on useless drivel and then packs everything worth reading into the last half of the book. When a book is over 500 pages, something needs to happen in the first 350.
From GoodReads: Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at Ethan and Lena, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.